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Klezmer (Yiddish: כלזמיר, from Hebrew: k'li zemer כלי זמר, lit. "vessels of song", meaning "musical instruments" in Hebrew; in Yiddish, "klezmer" refers to a professional Jewish instrumentalist) is a genre and type of music originating in Eastern Europe.
Klezmer was relegated to a few isolated moments at weddings and barmitzvahs. The revival started in the late 1970s, led by several outstanding American musicians keen to explore the music of...
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Giora Feidman was born on March 25, 1936, in Buenos Aires, and inherited his family's passion for music. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia in present-day Moldavia and southern Ukraine. They had fled devastating Jewish pogroms in the region in the early 1900s. Some of his ancestors were "Klezmorim," or wandering musicians who perfor...
At age 18, the highly gifted Giora was hired as a clarinetist at the Teatro Colon, the most renowned opera house of South America. But he did not want to stay in Argentina. Like hundreds of thousands of other Jews, he felt the calling of the newly founded state of Israel. In 1956, he left Buenos Aires to accept a position at the Israel Philharmonic...
This was the beginning of a remarkable career. None other than Leonard Bernstein became one of his sponsors and admirers. Giora Feidman spent almost two decades playing clarinet for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra before moving on to a solo career in New York where he played klezmer. At first, his manager and later wife, Israeli composer Ora Bat ...
In Germany, Feidman became famous in 1984 when stage director Peter Zadek asked him to star in the musical Ghettoby Joshua Sobol, alongside the Israeli actress and singer Esther Ofarim. Then Hollywood noticed him. In 1994, along with the violinist Itzak Perlman, he played the Oscar-winning music of Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama, Schindler's Li...
Alicia Svigals, violinist/composer and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, is the world's foremost klezmer fiddler. Alicia almost singlehandedly revived the tradition of klezmer fiddling, which had been on the brink of extinction until she recorded her debut album Fidl in the 1990’s.
Natasha Bodansky has been singing with Maxwell Street Klezmer Band since 2014. A native of Ukraine, she came to the U.S. in 1995 and holds a BA in Choral Conducting from Kharkov State Institute of the Arts as well as a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
This is a list of klezmer musicians : Michael Alpert [1] József Balogh. Gérard Barreaux. Shloimke (Sam) Beckerman. Sidney Beckerman. Ofer Ben-Amots. Alan Bern. Geoff Berner.
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The Klezmorim, founded in Berkeley, California, in 1975, was the world's first klezmer revival band, widely credited with spearheading the global renaissance of klezmer (Eastern European Yiddish instrumental music) in the 1970s and 1980s.
